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Rearming NATO: Innovate, Accelerate, Sustain: The NATO Industry Forum 2025 in Bucharest 🇷🇴, brought together senior leaders from NATO, Allies, and industry to explore how to turn technology and innovation into capabilities to ensure #NATO remains agile and prepared for the modern battlefield. 👉 On Day 1, NCIA’s Chief of Acquisition, Marianne Roth, joined discussions on rethinking NATO’s engagement with industry, highlighting how pre-competitive collaboration helps identify solutions faster, reducing time-to-market for NATO capabilities and bringing innovation into NATO programmes. 👉 On Day 2, NCIA’s General Manager, Ludwig Decamps, spoke in the plenary “Breaking Down Barriers to Capability Delivery,” sharing how NCIA connects operational needs with technology innovation turning digital solutions into deployable capabilities. He underscored that closer coordination among NATO, nations, and industry is critical to maintaining technological edge and delivering at the scale and speed required by today’s security environment. More insights here 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ePbfZkS3

The second phase of #SteadfastCobalt 25 ⚡ is underway! As NATO's largest communications and information systems interoperability exercise, Steadfast Cobalt strengthens NATO's #readiness and operational efficiency 💪 Learn how NCIA experts have been working behind the scenes to make it happen ➡️ bit.ly/STCO25B #WeAreNATO #StrongerTogether NATO - Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE)

Readiness to respond to Article 5 is at the heart of NATO’s defence and deterrence⚡️🛡️ In this #NITECH article, Major Derek Aubin explains how Exercise Loyal Leda 2025 brought together 2,500 personnel across NATO commands and land forces to test interoperability and cyber resilience during complex multi-domain operations 💪 With NCIA’s Communications and Information Systems Support Units providing classified IT infrastructure and communications across the participating NATO commands 💻 Loyal Leda proved the Alliance’s ability to synchronise, and respond decisively to evolving threats. Read more on page 97 👉 https://bit.ly/nitech13 #MagazineMonday

"Integrating gender perspectives into capability development is not a ‘nice to have’. The simple truth is that it is central to our mission and it is about enhancing our warfighting effectiveness.” - Irene Fellin, NATO Secretary General's Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security. This week we marked the 25th anniversary of UNCSR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security with 'WPS@25: Designing NATO Capabilities for Inclusive Security' at our campus in The Hague 🇳🇱 The event brought together over 260 participants from NATO and Nations to explore how gender inclusion strengthens technological innovation and operational effectiveness across the Alliance. Learn more here 👉 https://bit.ly/4qAyDgr

🚀 Exercise #SteadfastDuel 25, at NATO Joint Warfare Centre, NATO's largest computer-assisted command post exercise, brought together around 7000 military and civilian personnel from across Europe and the United States 🌍 to test #NATO readiness and interoperability under realistic crisis conditions.   Learn here how we worked alongside our partners to support the exercise 👉 bit.ly/steadfast-duel25   📸 NATO Joint Warfare Centre NATO ACT NATO - Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) #WeAreNATO #StrongerTogether

Cumhuriyet Bayrami kutlu Olsun Türkiye! 🇹🇷   Happy national day to our Ally as they celebrate the foundation of its Republic 102 years ago. 🇹🇷 is an essential contributor to NATO's strength, bolstering peacekeeping exercises around the globe 🌍 and hosting NATO Allied Land Command (LANDCOM) in İzmir. 💪   #WeAreNato #StrongerTogether

🎥 Join our reporter aboard a 🇪🇸 Spanish ship during Exercise Dynamic Messenger 25, to learn how NCIA's Joint Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance 💡 is developing technologies to help NATO counter the growing threat posed by the malicious use of drones. #WeAreNATO #DYMS25 NATO Maritime Command Armada

Rapid deployment for a more dangerous world⚡️🌍 In this #NITECH article, Darius Žibalis explains how Exercise Steadfast Dart 25 marked the first large-scale deployment of the NATO Allied Response Force (ARF), empowering the Alliance’s capability to react rapidly, and reinforce its territory in times of crisis. NCIA facilitated the exercise, with interoperable cyber security and secure communications to facilitate the ARF’s resilient connectivity. Read more on page 95 👉 https://bit.ly/nitech13 #MagazineMonday

Gratulálok, #Magyarország! 🇭🇺 Today our Ally #Hungary commemorates the 1956 Revolution and the proclamation of the Hungarian Republic. #Hungary plays a key role in #NATO's forward presence on the Eastern flank, hosting one of the multinational battlegroups and actively contributing to our collective defence and shared security🛡🤝 Hungarian Defence Forces Ministry of Defence of Hungary 📸 Sztaniszláv Horváth | HM Zrínyi #WeAreNATO #StrongerTogether

Air command and control has been central to NATO’s collective defence for more than 60 years, and it’s now more vital than ever ✈️🛡. In this #NITECH article, John Booth, Chief of Air Command and Control at NCIA, explains how AirC2 is facilitating the multi-domain and distributed operations that are at the core of the Alliance’s effectiveness. By developing federated “systems of systems”, underpinned by a culture of continuous improvement, AirC2 is enabling the Alliance to defend its airspace, while preparing for crisis and facing down future threats. Read more on page 88 👉 https://bit.ly/nitech13 #MagazineMonday